Ben is now 5 and can read small chunks of text to entertain and educate himself. This makes me a happy mother because I can pass him a book and he’s pretty much engaged, which frees me to handle the other two who frequently need my attention.

If you pass him a book that interests him, that is.

A while ago, Julia Gabriel Education sent us this:

Rainbow Bear’s Dinosaur Discovery Book and CD set retails at SGD29.95

No surprise there who jumped for joy.

I very much left Ben on his own with the book while playing the audio. The book and CD set did three wonderful things for Ben. First, it reinforced whatever he’s learned for phonics at kindergarten; second it allowed him to read along with the CD and figure out challenging dinosaur names on his own without my help; and third, the beautifully illustrated book let him do a picture search for things relating to the various blends and digraphs on each page, which is something he enjoys very much.

Listening attentively…

A peek inside…

And while the younger ones could only be engaged for only a few minutes with their shorter attention span, this boy sat in the living room for quite a while enjoying the story.

He loves picture hunts and this is keeping him really focused

The book got him excited about dinosaurs again. It even has fun facts about the 24 prehistoric animals mentioned in the pages (and I actually thought the names were all made up but I was so wrong!) – which is really good fuel for his imagination and value-adds to his reading. The audio is also great for reinforcing the correct pronunciation with the dinosaurs teaching him the most common sound of each digraph and blend.

If your kids love dinosaurs and are learning how to read, this book and CD set is a good resource to have as they journey towards fluent reading. Plus, the songs and tongue twisters are funny too!

And I have THREE sets of this to give away!

Julia Gabriel Education is giving away THREE sets of Rainbow Bear’s Dinosaur Discoverybook + CD set to three of Motherkao’s readers, so you and your child can meet ’em all too!

To qualify for the random draw, simply do the following:

1) Leave me a comment here telling me who you’d like to win this for and what’s his/her favourite dinosaur

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32 Comments

I would like to win it for my elder son, Ian (5). Amongst his favourite dinasours, he especially like ankylosaurus – facinated with its club tail and armoured body. We have the Alphabet Zoo by Julia Gabriel, thought it would be a bonus to get this one for free.

I’ll like to win the set for my sons (5 and 2yrs old) both of them have developed a love for dinosaurs and we always come back from the library with books relating to dinosaurs. It’ll be great if we can actually own some dinosaur related books instead of having to return them after 3 weeks.

My older one loves the triceratop while the little one loves the T-rex. Thank you!

I wish to win this set of book for my 4 yrs old boy. He likes to flip the book with interesting pictures. He haven’t start to learning to recognise difference types of dinosaurs. Playing the cd while flipping the book I hope can encourage him to start to learning to spell or recognise the name of dinosaurs.

Hi, thanks for this chance to win a book with audio for my girl, she has a nursery rhymne book with audio cd, n that really helps her in recognising thw word as she sings along with it and following the words, now I am really interested to find her more resources like this. Her favourite dinosaur is T rex as she said Barney is a t rex! and she loves barney songs.

For my son Qi Ming who has just started on phonics and is crazy about dinosaurs.
His favourite is Brachiosaurus. In fact, every family member is represented by a dinosaur. His little brother is TRex simply because he is a destroyer of toys.

Hi,
You might like to let your boy watch the movie Walking with Dinosaurs, its very suitable for young children and the 3d dinosaurs look very realistic. My daughter is also 5 and she learnt about the Pachyrinosaurus from watching the movie. It’d be great to win the book + cd set for her to learn blends/digraphs via the Julia gabriel style of songs and fun theme of prehistoric creatures.

I will like to win this set for my son. He’s 4.5yrs and doesn’t have any favourite dinosaur as I’ve not exposed him with dinosaur. I’m not familiar with the dinosaur family myself. I will like to take this opportunity to learn abt dinosaur family with him. Thank you.